Persistent Little Bugger

At the end of last summer, we had a noisy visitor living in our garage. As the weather grew cooler, a cricket moved in and stayed. And stayed. And stayed. It was the longest living cricket in entomological history. We searched and searched the garage for the little bugger on a number of occasions over a month.

As long as it was dark in the garage, that thing chirped. During the day, I took to keeping the garage door open a crack just to get it to stop. At night, the kids would open the door from the kitchen to the garage (which in turn set off the sensor ceiling light), yell, "Hey, keep it down out there!" and giggle when the noise stopped. Once the light went out, the chirping resumed.

This past weekend I was cleaning out the last unexcavated corner of the garage since our tenant went silent some months ago, and finally found the culprit, albeit a bit dehydrated.